February 2010
22 posts
“Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”
“What’s the difference?”
– Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
January 2010
49 posts
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Free programming books →
fuckyeahcomputerscience:jmxp
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Notational Velocity now supports syncing with...
mnmal:
Yes, the two simple ways to take notes can now be synced.
Check Notational Velocity and Simplenote. They are both free.
Awesomeness! I have been using SimplenoteSync to achieve this, and I’m glad to see NV support it natively.
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CapSee →
CapSee displays a bezel on-screen whenever the CapsLock key is pressed. (via mnmal)
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※ On the Tablet
I’ll call it a tablet for convenience, as that’s how most people choose to refer to it. I take issue with that name because it limits what most people think of, thanks to years of failed tablet computing attempts. It’s much more likely Apple would come out with something totally different. And while we can daydream and speculate about how it will look, what the specs are, how...
Prediction (iPhone App) →
Prediction redefines the mobile rumor aggregation experience by keeping you on the cutting edge of rumor speculation. Amaze friends with your up-to-the-second understanding and sophisticated analysis of current reports.
Show your strength of judgement in the face of swirling uncertainty!
It allows you to feel like a pseudo-pundit or express your innermost desires about technology. And...
Google leaving Ogg out of the picture here makes sense, because it would be very easy for them to offer HTML5/h264 videos that play in Chrome and Safari, while still excluding free formats and users of free browsers like Firefox and Icecat. —Ask YouTube for Ogg support! - Free Software Foundation
Interesting way to look at it, but disingenuous: nobody is blocking Firefox from implementing...
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“I am sick of hearing people say, “Oh, I love your code, I wish I could do that.”...”
– I Have No Talent // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs
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“In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are...”
– Brad Fitzpatrick
“The development of the Linux kernel has a shallow hierarchical structure,...”
– Bryan O’Sullivan, “Mercurial: The Definitive Guide”
RE: Did Anyone Solve the MU-Puzzle in Chapter 1?
paulitex:
godelescherbach:
SPOILER ALERT. Mouseover this link to see my response.
Yes I think I did, but wikipedia says it’s impossible. I want someone to show me why my proof is wrong.
So either I’ve found a very strange coinciding bug into two completely different, well tested programming languages, or Wikipedia’s wrong, or more probably, I’m missing something.
WolframAlpha has the...
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No Tumblarity? What the hell? I was barely level...
paulitex:
Last night I was just telling my friend Joe, who joined tumblr yesterday, how genius tumblarity is. You want to raise it. Why? Just cause you do. It’s the insta-competitive crack feedback loop rpgs like WoW are based on.
But in this game, instead of getting points for killing mythical beasts you get points for contributing to the online world. Especially if it’s interesting. It...
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...”
– E. F. Schumacher
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Vintage Ad Browser →
A whole bunch of cool, old stuff. And someone just posted a ton of vintage LEGO ads!
“Being heard can’t be our motivation for speaking. Being responded to can’t be...”
– Joshua Blankenship » On The Entitlement Baggage of Social Media (and Human Nature)
“There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman on “Self-Promotion”
Re: Destroying perfectly good retail merchandise
rentzsch:
Marco Arment:
It’s all incredibly wasteful, but on some level, I can see why they do it: if the “get credit and destroy” system changed to “get credit and donate”, it would really become “get credit, say they were donated, then take them home and sell them on eBay”.
*[snip]*
All that said, while my grand scheme sounds feasible to implement, I won’t deny it’s a lot simpler for a...
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※ Still using IE5.x/6? Find better employment!
Note that IE5.x is nowhere to be found. That’s for good reason. […] If you’re stuck in a position where you’re still having to code for that ancient browser, the best suggestion I have is to […] find better employment. ↪
Most laypeople believe we’re just being smug when we deride older versions of Internet Explorer, or that designers and web developers are being lazy in...
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TinEye Reverse Image Search →
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Pentagram - What type are you? →
Answer four simple questions, and determine your type.
P.S. The password is character
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”
– Martin Luther King (via minimalmac)
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※ curriculum addendum
I study Computer Science. Outside of school, I also study the art (and science) of software engineering, though that’s more of a hobby.
As part of CS proper we look at operating system architecture, networking theory, algorithms, software engineering best practices (as opposed to actual ones) and a smidgen of human-computer interaction (HCI), along with a few somewhat-esoteric topics that...
Consumerist Exposé on Best Buy PC 'Optimization' →
Consumerist:
When the Consumer Reports engineers compared three “optimized” computers to ones with default factory settings, there was no performance improvement. In one case, an optimized laptop actually performed 32% worse than the factory model.
It’s also a bait-and-switch tactic, to get you to pay $40 more than the advertised price.
Whenever a brand new computer...
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Another praised feature of the Microsoft Courier is its UI which is very different from what Apple offers as it’s very complex. (via What Apple Tablet? Here’s the Microsoft Courier)(emphasis mine)
Uhm… What? o_O
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The list of unusual articles available on... →
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Zenedit →
Zenedit is a Windows writing environment, much in the same vein as WriteRoom.